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Summary

Looking for a book that combines ethical theory with today's most relevant and compelling issues? SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ETHICS provides you with a sound introduction to ethical theory and issues through engaging readings on today's most hotly debated topics including war, marriage and sexual morality, business ethics, and a new section on voting and democracy.

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Preface

Ehtical Theory

An Introduction to Ethics

The Nature of Morality

Normative Theories of Ethics

Ethical Relativism

The Challenge of Cultural Relativism

Four Rival Ethical Perspectives

Happiness, Function, and Virtue

Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative

Utilitarianism

What Makes Right Acts Right?

Issues in Applied Ethics

Suicide and Euthanasia

The Morality and Rationality of Suicide

Voluntary Active Euthanasia

When Self-Determination Runs Amok

Is There a Duty to Die?

Abortion

An Almost Absolute Value in History

The Moral Status of Abortion

An Argument That Abortion Is Wrong

A Defense of Abortion

Virtue Theory and Abortion

Animals, Vegetarianism, and Environmental Ethics

The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues

Do Animals Have Rights?

Why You Are Committed to the Immorality of Eating Meat

Why I Am Only a Demi-Vegetarian

Reply to Hare

Respect for Life

Reply to Rolston

Liberty and Paternalism

On Liberty

Paternalism

A Drug-Free America--or a Free America?

U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency: Speaking Out Against Drug Legalization

Marriage and Sexual Morality

Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex?

Homosexuality, Gay Marriage, and the Common Good

Gay Marriage: The Case for Equal Treatment

Adultery and Fidelity

Alcohol and Rape

Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom

Voting and Democracy

Considerations on Representative Government

Is There a Duty to Vote?

Editors, Harvard Law Review: The Case for Compulsory Voting

Crime, Guns, and Rights

The False Promise of Gun Control

Handguns and Violent Crime

Is There a Right to Own a Gun?

Punishment and the Death Penalty

Punishment and the Criminal Justice System

The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense

Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty

U.S. Supreme Court: Atkins v. Virginia

The Ethics of War and the Response to Terrorism

Pacifism

Jus ad Bellum and an Officer's Moral Obligations: Ignorance, the Constitution, and Iraq

Civilians and Combatants

Torture in Principle and in Practice

Race, Discrimination, and Affirmative Action

A More Perfect Union

One Way to Understand and Defend Programs of Preferential Treatment

The Case Against Affirmative Action

U.S. Supreme Court: The University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases

Weight Discrimination

Social Justice

Editors, Harvard Law Review: Never Again Shall A People Starve in a World of Plenty